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Instructions  to  Ordnance  Officers  in  the  Field. 


1st.  The  Chief  of  Ordnance  of  an  army  corps,  and  ordnance  officers 
of  separate  commands,  -will  correspond  with  the  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of 
Ordnance  relative  to  supplies  of  ordnance  and  ordnance  stoics,  with  the 
commands  to  which  they  are  attached.  Requisitions  made,  whether  for 
money  or  stores,  will  be  approved  by  the  General  commanding. 

2d.  The  division  ordnance  officers  will  correspond  with  the  Chief  of 
Ordnance  of  the  army  corps  to  which  the  divisions  are  attached,  and  obtain 
supplies  through  him.  They  will  be  responsible  for  the  property  under 
their  charge,  and  may  have  an  ordnance  officer  or  military  storekeeper  to 
assist  in  the  care  and  responsibility  of  the  property. 

3d.  Division  ordnance  officers  will  obtain  one  or  more  wagons  for  each 
regiment  in  their  division,  as  ordnance  wagons.  These  wagons  will  be 
separate  from  the  train  off  wagons  for  reserve  ammunition,  and  will  be 
marked  with  the  name  of/the  regiment  to  which  they  are  assigned,  and 
will  be  placed  in  charge  of  the  Ordnance  Sergeant  of  the  regiment.  The 
wagons  will  be  covered,  if  possible,  with  painted  cloth  covers,  for  secu- 
rity against  the  weather,  and  each  wagon  will  be  supplied  with  a  spare 
tarpaulin.    These  wagons  will  habitually  follow  their  respective  regiments. 

4th.  On  the  eve  of  battle  the  division  ordnance  officer  will,  under 
direction  of  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  of  the  army,  station  the  ordnance 
wagons  at  the  point  selected  for  the  division  field  depot  of  ammunition 
under  charge  of  his  assistant ;  each  train  of  brigade  ammunition  wagons, 
under  charge  of  the  senior  Ordnance  Sergeant  of  the  brigade.  He  will 
keep  himself  acquainted  with  the  movements  of  brigades,  and  cause  the 
wagons  of  any  brigade,  which  may  be  detached,  to  follow  the  movements 
of  the  brigade. 

5th.  The  Ordnance  Sergeants,  together  with  the  details  habitually  as- 
signed to  them  for  then  regiments,  will  constitute  a  corps  devoted  as  well 
to  the  preservation  of  the  captured  and  other  ordnance  stores  as  to  the 
supplies  of  ammunition  of  the  various  regiments.     One  man  of  each 


detail  should  follow  the  movements  of  the  regiment,  to  ascertain  its 
wants,  and  communicate  with  the  field  depot,  The  habitual  details  from 
each  regiment  should  be  augmented  before  a  battle,  to  not  less  than  six 
men  from  eacli  regiment.  The  ammunition  Avagons,  their  loads  tempo- 
rarily removed,  will,  as  circumstances  favor,  be  employed  to  carry  to  the 
rear  such  arms  and  other  captured  stores  as  are  left  upon  the  battle  field. 

6th.  Especial  care  must  be  taken  in  selecting  competent,  prompt  and 
efficient  men  for  the  duties  of  Ordnance  Sergeants.  They  may  be  re- 
moved for  cause,  and  new  appointments  ordered,  on  the  application  of 
the  division  ordnance  officers,  through  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  of  the 
army  corps,  by  the  Commanding  General. 

7th.  The  ammunition  wagons  to  each  regiment  will  not  supersede  the 
necessity  for  division  supply  trains. 


Duties  of  Ordnance  Sergeants, 


1st.  To  obey  the  directions  of  the  division  ordnance  officer,  or  of  the 
brigade  ordnance  officer  (if  the  brigade  is  a  separate  command),  in  all 
relative  to  care  and  preservation  of  arms,  and  duties  connected  therewith. 

2d.  To  take  charge  of  all  supplies,  arms  and  ammunition,  of  the  regi- 
ment, and  make  returns  of  the  same  according  to  "  Ordnance  Regula- 
tions." 

Issues  to  be  made  on  written  requisitions  approved  by  the  Colonel,  or 
commanding  officer  of  the  regiment;  which  requisitions  are  to  be  filed 
with  his  "  return  of  property." 

3d.  To  take  charge  of  the  ordnance  wagon  or  wagons  attached  to  each 
regiment,  and  to  see  that  it  always  contains  at  least  15  rounds  per  man  of 
the  regiment — surplus  arms  or  accoutrements  to  be  turned  over  to  the 
brigade  or  division  ordnance  officer. 

4th.  To  supervise  the  condition  of  the  arms  of  the  regiment,  and  get 
a  detail  of  at  least  two  mechanics  to  assist  him  in  the  necessary  repairs  to 


the  arms;  an  account  of  these  repairs  to  be  kepK  as 

against  each  man  of  the  regiment.     R<  pairs  to  be  made  on  the  order  of 

the  Colonel  of  the  regiment. 

5th.  To  take  charge  of  the  arms  and  accoutrements  of  the  sick  of  the 
regiment  in  hospitals,  which  will  be  kept  until  the  sick  are  sent  to  the 
general  hospital,  when  their  arms  wiU  be  turned  over  to  the  brigade  or 
division  depots. 

6th.    In  battle  it  will  be  the  duty  of  the  Ordnance  Sea 
with  the  ammunition  wagons,  and  act  with  the  details  assigned  to  tl  em 
from  the  regiments,  under  the  orders  of  the  ordnance  officer,  in  supplying 
the  troops  with  ammunition,  coll.  rms  of  the  killed  and  wounded 

and  securing  captured  arms  and  ammunition. 


Approved : 


May  20,  18C-2. 


G.  W.  RANDOLPH 

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